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#Autocrats, #Dictators, #MaligNarcs, #PolitCrims, #PoliticalMonsters, #PoliticalMonstrosities, Feudal-Medieval Power, Illegitmate Power, integrity in politics, Medieval v. Modern, Modern People Modern Politics, Moscow Apartment Bombings, Operation Storm In Moscow
Fake News?
If only it existed in the Mainstream Press (Fox News excepted at present).
Fake Presidents?
At least two exist and both have represented rival superpowers.
One has been putting on a clown show in the United States.
One remains in power in Russia.
Meanwhile others in Moscow are still wondering whether there is a domestic political aspect to the crisis and whether rogue elements of the security forces are in some way involved in an attempt to provoke a state of emergency in Russia or the cancellation of elections.
There is absolutely no proof of this, but a little noticed article in the Moscow newspaper Moskovskaya Pravda by a respectable journalist Alexander Zhilin is now attracting attention.
Zhilin wrote on 25 August that President Yeltsin’s health was failing and that a plan with the codename “Storm in Moscow” was being hatched in the Kremlin . . . .
Zhilin’s article is interesting because it was written before the bomb explosions.
Waal, Tom de. “World: Europe: Russia’s bombs: Who is to blame?” BBC News, September 30, 1998.
During this fateful summer when Moscow was awash with rumors, I was friendly with a Russian political operative who was well connected to the higher levels of Russian power. When I met him, he told me about the growing fear in the Kremlin about the possibility of losing power and the indications that Moscow would be the scene of a huge provocation. He said that the issue was the security of Yeltsin and his family in the case of a handover of power. He said that if there was no agreement on terms, “they will blow up half of Moscow.”
I sensed the uneasiness but did not know how to assess the prediction of my friend. I had no illusions about Yeltsin and his cronies but it was hard to imagine that a man who came to power as a result of a peaceful anti-communist revolution with massive public support would be willing to murder his own people to hold onto power. Developing events, however, were to change my mind.
At 9:40 p.m. on September 4, a truck bomb exploded in Buinaksk, Dagestan’s second-largest city. It destroyed a five story apartment building, which housed soldiers from the 136th Motor Rifle Brigade.
Satter, David. “How Putin Became President.” American Interest, Hudson, May 19, 2016.
In a curious twist to the story, the liberal bi-weekly Novaya Gazeta published an investigation on Monday into a bomb discovered in the city of Ryazan last year. The FSB eventually said it had planted the bomb but that it was a fake and the incident was part of a training exercise. Local eyewitnesses said the timer and explosives were real.
Cockburn, Patrick. “Russian intelligence produces apartment bombing evidence.” Independent, March 17, 2000.
I’ve ordered John B. Dunlop’s book The Moscow Bombings of September 1999: Examinations of Russian Terrorist Attacks at the Onset of Vladimir Putin’s Rule (Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2014) and expect to find some “lovely” devils in the details but no change in the thesis relayed by the above quotations: power in Moscow, Yeltsin’s or Putin’s–or as controlled by Russia’s secret political police, the FSB–has proven itself criminal, ruthless, and unconscionable by bombing apartment buildings in the dead of night while Russian families slept in peace, and they did it in the interests not of real power, but of a display of power, i.e., of their own narcissistic image as controlled in a theater of their own making.
The false-flag operation, “Storm in Moscow”, supported the election of Vladimir Putin (for the length of his life, apparently) and the launching of a barbaric war featuring most of all the brutalizing of Chechen villages, sending the men into the ranks of rebels and putting in control the warlord Ramzan Kadyrov.
The betrayal of ordinary Russian people: unfathomable.
And perhaps ordinary Russians should know the truth.
Cited or Related Online
About Operation “Storm in Moscow” AKA “Moscow Apartment Bombings”
Knight, Amy. “Finally, We Know About the Moscow Bombings.”The New York Review, November 22, 2012.
Satter, David. “How Putin Became President.” American Interest, Hudson, May 19, 2016.
Waal, Tom de. “World: Europe: Russia’s bombs: Who is to blame?” BBC News, September 30, 1998.
About the Barbaric and Malign Narcissistic Character of Russian State Ambition
Nekrasov, Andrey. Director. Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File AKA The Murder of Litvinenko.
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Oppenheim, James S. “Malignant Narcissism.” BackChannels web page.
Oppenheim, James S. “Malignant Narcissistic Process Distilled.” BackChannels, July 10, 2022.
Russian power appears to lie first and foremost to Russians while maintaining for itself the burden of truths about which it cannot and dare not speak–at least not until found out. Given the work of many journalists possess of abundant curiosity and integrity, Russia’s powerful have been today well observed, investigated, and reported on extensively, and for the top rank, the same would seem today fully found out.
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